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<h2>Field Goal Attempts in the NFL</h2>

<h3>Description</h3>

<p>A sample of 30 field goal attempts in the National Football League
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<h3>Format</h3>

<p>A dataset with 30 observations on the following 13 variables.
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    <code>ID</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> ID number</td>
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    <code>PlayerID</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Code for player</td>
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    <code>LastName</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Last name</td>
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    <code>FirstName</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> First name</td>
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    <code>Year</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Year</td>
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    <code>Team</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Abbreviation for team name</td>
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    <code>Date</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Code for date:  mmddyy</td>
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    <code>FGAttempts</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Field goals attempted by the kicker that game</td>
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    <code>FGMade</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Field goals made by the kicker that game</td>
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    <code>Attempt</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Which attempt during the game?</td>
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    <code>Result</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> <code>1</code>=made the field goal or <code>0</code>=missed</td>
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    <code>Yards</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> Number of yards for the field goal attempt</td>
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    <code>Block</code> </td><td style="text-align: left;"> <code>1</code>=attempt blocked or <code>0</code>=not blocked</td>
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<h3>Details</h3>

<p>This is a subset  of just 30 field goal attempts selected at random from the larger sample of attempts made by NFL kickers
that is summarized in FGByDistance.
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<h3>Source</h3>

<p>We thank Sean Forman and Doug Drinen of Sports Reference LLC for providing us with the NFL field goal data
set.
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